August 20, 2003

Peacemaker

Yesterday a Palestinian suicide bomber targeted a bus "packed with ultra-Orthodox Jewish families returning from the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest shrine." The attacker, an Islamic cleric, succeded in murdering 20 Jewish civilians including as many as six children. About 40 of more than 100 wounded were children.

In an Israeli prison, Palestinian security prisoners applauded joyously and passed out candy when they learned of the bombing, the Israel Prisons Authority said.